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Friday, May 02, 2014

not a finish

Welcome to finish it up Friday!

Yesterday spent the day sewing, just for the fun of it. And it was good.

I always have a plethora of strings....so I am making another candy coated quilt. This will be my 3rd one! (Pattern is in the book Sunday Morning Quilts.) Playing with so much color has been a good antidote to the rainy and dreary weather that we've had all. week. long.

As a thank you for joining me each week for finish it up Friday, I'm going to do a little giveaway. (I actually think I have too many scraps, can you believe it?!) If you'd like to win a little scrap bundle from me, please leave a comment in this post. In your comment, I'd love to hear if you have any fun weekend plans. (International entries welcome, as long as you are willing to pay the shipping overages if sent outside the US.) One comment per person and please make sure that I have a way of contacting you. Thanks!

Now, it's time to link up your finishes. Thanks for joining me for finish it up Friday!

Actually, our weekend begins today! My kids have the day off school, and for some reason, we are having summer weather in May so we are off to the beach. (I've been pedal to the medal sewing this week, so it will be nice spending time with a whole gaggle of children in the sun.)I hope the weather picks up for you and you have a wonderful weekend!! :)

I love playing with other people's scraps, so count me in! What a fun giveaway! My weekend plans include a sleepover with my two adorable granddaughters, breakfast with their parents on Saturday morning, our first boat outing of the season, Spiderman at the movies and maybe even an arts and crafts festival on Sunday! It's our first pretty weekend without many outside obligations in a long time!!

Lovely bright quilt! I am amazed at your collection of fabrics, just awesome!!!I may be going to a quiltshow this weekend, and have also made time for lots of sewing! Maybe create a mothersday present, depending on how much time it will take to finish everything else first.Estheresthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot comipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

I love the new quilt (to-be) and the pile of scraps! I've been meaning/needing to put together a scrap quilt... maybe winning would help me push that project to the top of the list???

My family has a busy weekend planned: on Saturday, we get keys to our new home - we're moving later this month! (I've never even seen the home in person - eep!) Then on Sunday we are participating in a motorcycle ride to raise funds for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. Thanks! (charlottesgraceforacure@gmail.com)

Just realized it is time for me to do another scrap quilt, one that is a bit more improv than my last few quilts. Would love to throw your scraps in the mix! Planning to watch soccer this weekend and enjoy time with my extended family.

Would love to play with your scraps! Thanks for the giveaway! I am finishing up a commission quilt (turning out to be tons of fun) and my boys are off hunting, so I plan to stay in comfies and sew all weekend!

Thank you for your link-up each week. I enjoy seeing the many modern quilts. I would love to win your scrap bundle as I tend to use country colors or civil war repro fabrics. Please help me move over to the bright side of quilting! Plans for the weekend will be quilting customer quilts as it is suppose to rain all weekend.

Loving all the color~ I'm planning on working on baby quilts and burp rags all weekend. It's the summer of babies and baby showers it seems. I have fallen in Love with your blog and book. You have given me so many ideas and future projects. Plus a new love for working with scraps. Thanks you!

This post and its comments make me think about how a dog pants and drools over table scraps, and how different are we? Not so much it seems. Four of our kids are baseball players and so we will be at diamonds all weekend hoping for sunshine! Happy weekend to you!

Opps failed to tell weekend plans. Saturday Morning Speaking at a ladies Program at Church, Saturday afternoon our first 4H stockshow of the season. (will be working on Hexies while sitting and waiting for my girls to show) Sunday morning Church, Sunday afternoon Cookout with group from church. Busy as usuall!

I read your blog all the time, and enjoy it a lot. I would love to win your scraps! This Saturday I will be working at a Quilt Shop, but then spending time with my two adorable Grandsons. Sunday, more Grandson's play and yard work, and hopefully a little sewing in the evening befoe bed. I know not very exciting, but it all make's me Happy! Sheila

Hi, I would love to win scraps. We have a fairly busy weekend, Saturday afternoon and evening youth music program at the church,and playing Sunday at church. Add to that the usual housecleaning, laundry, etc. that gets done on the weekend.

I just LOVE your quilt. I am a real sucker for scraps! This weekend Hubby and I are going out to dinner with my Dear Sister-in-Law and Dear Brother-in-Law. We are so blessed to have them in our lives and we don't get to see them near enough! Thanks for the chance to win.

Sewing for the fun of it? Can't think of a better way to spend your day! Your string quilt top is sure to be brightening your mood during this drab weather. I would love to have some scraps! My weekend is filled with plans, but the highlight is having our church yard sale tomorrow. I am bringing baby quilts and hoping to sell some to raise money for our church building fund and the youth group. Thanks sew much for the giveaway!

Your scrap bundle would be great for the bee I'm in right now, Sunday Morning Quilts Bee on Flickr :) I'm leaving work early today to start and finish a baby quilt for a baby shower tomorrow. Have no idea what I'm making but I'd better decide soon. Thanks for the chance to win!

I am going to an 80th birthday party complete with a dj, should be pretty Rockin! Also a 4th birthday. I will definately be doing some sewing. And sadly probably spring cleaning. I am also helping a friend plan a photo quilt for a friend of hers with cancer it will be a surprise for her and a new experience for us :-). Have a beautiful weekend!! Chamberlinbecky (at) gmail {dot}com

My friend is having a yard sale to raise money to walk in the Breast Cancer 3 Day in the fall. I'm donating an old sewing machine and going to help her out. Thanks for asking and the chance to win your beautiful scraps.

That quilt has some beautiful color! Wow! Weekend plans? Tonight, we're going to check out a local food truck event for dinner and then we'll spend the rest of the weekend doing yard work and preparing the basement for our remodel that begins next week.

Spring is finally here which means my 3 year old and I can head out on an early morning walk and decide what to do on the way. There's a park close to home, as well as we have memberships to the aquarium and the museum. We get to have our special time together, and the rest of the house sleeps in. Win-win!!

I would love a chance to win some of your bright scraps! My exciting weekend will consist of cleaning up my sewing room on Saturday pulling fabric that no longer appeals to me to forward to someone else. So I just might have a little room to include some new fabric -- or not! LOL

I love your quilts and bags and I also love scraps! This weekend there is a "home show" at our fairgrounds, so I'll be attending. Then I hope to get my youngest granddaughter's quilt quilted. Thanks for the giveaway and a chance!

love! Your project is so bright and colorful. Those scraps are just the berries! I am currently doing fanned scrap string blocks for a swap with my bee members. I loved making the blocks so much, I have finished mine and decided to make additional ones to enlarge the quilt by a couple of rows. Along with continued yard work and planting, plan to do some string sewing!

My fun plans for the weekend include going to pick up three bins of fabric from a woman I know from church who is putting her house up for sale to move to a warmer climate! I will sort through it and anything that I do not want, I will donate to a quilt group at a church where my friend is the pastor.

Thanks for the chance. New (to me) fabric scraps!Weekend: We are going to my 21yr old daughter's BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition. In addition to her paintings, she's made a hugh rat that hangs from a 12'h x9'w frame. It's made from old t-shirts. The body's in black that's been splatter bleached and the details in white, dyed with pink acrylic paint, water and walnut husks. Reminds me of a scrappy quilt! Refused to learn sewing from me..learned through trial & error.

Amanda, I love your style of writing. So grounded and real. I always look forward to reading your posts and have learned a great deal. Today I am working on finishing a springy table runner for mom for Mother's Day.

I would love your scraps :-) I am hoping to finish a few blocks for the Gypsy Wife QAL, and the rest of my bee blocks. I am also hoping to get my aerial quilt quilted. Of course then I want to sleep in, have a relaxing long breakfast with the fam. and do something with just my son and I :-)

I'd love the scraps. I love your colors. As a new quilting mom, I'm enjoying the machine quilting post. I wonder if you would ever teach how you pick pattern/colors and do a blog on that (maybe your already have?) This weekend will be in the garden!

Happy Friday Amanda Jean ! I have only been quilting for 2 years, would love to boost up my scraps :))Hopefully the wkend will include some sewing and relaxation ( not getting up at 3;30 will be a treat)

Your new quilt top looks so pretty! Your Sunday Morning Quilts book is my favorite. Anyway, this weekend I'm going to a "sewcial" with my modern quilt guild in Pennington, NJ. A whole day of sewing - can't wait!

I'd be so excited to get some of your scraps! I'm going to an LQS's celebration for being published as a Top 10 quilt store in Quilt Sampler magazine, and then later in the day my three boys have a big birthday party to go to. Hope you have a great weekend yourself -- your quilt is looking beautiful.

Love to have some scraps. I am drawn to happy colors and beachy prints. This weekend I plan to finish up sewing microwave bowl cozies and hand quilting a UFO table runner. Thanks for the chance at some fabric. I am after all addicted. :}

My weekend plans are definitely quilty -- a Secret Sew Night tonight with some friends at a lqs, and a guild Sew Day tomorrow! I'll be using up a lot of my own "scraps" and would love an infusion of new scraps!

I LOVE your candy quilts! I would be afraid to attempt one, so I just wanted to share the love. This weekend I'm braving the weather ti buy bathroom fittings (renovating an apartment) Sunday I might try some painting- but since I'll have a 6-y-o & a dog 'helping' it might not work out so well.Love yr workX

Hi there!I am planning to finish sewing on the LAST row of my King sized hexie quilt that I have been working on(by hand) for the past 1.5 years!!!! It has about 4,000 pieces(1") and is made all from scraps I have received from friends, pen pals and swaps. I love scraps!!!!I am in Canada and would be happy to pay the difference to mail to me!Thanks a bunch,Jacqueline in Pitt Meadows

I am spending a wonderful weekend in paradise (northern California coast) where there is wonderful weather, and I will be sewing as much as possible. I love trying to use up scraps, but they don't seem to disappear very fast! (So why am I wanting some of your scraps?!? I'm just that crazy!!)

Our "fun weekend plans" are going on a fund raising walk along a railway line, through dark dripping tunnels, and over bridges. This is taking place through the Manawatu Gorge, half a world away from you, in New Zealand. It should be fun, as long as those in charge remember to stop the trains for the day!!

I'd love some of your lovely scraps! This weekend we are having my daughters 11th birthday party. She creatively requested a FRUIT themed party (??) so I uncreatively went to the dollar stuff, saw tiki torches and flamingo decor and declared it a luau! Lucky me, she's thrilled! Then, the very minute the last guest walks out the door, before cleaning up dripping ice cream or clearing the room of wrapping paper or wadded up napkins, I'm going to crawl into bed and take a nap. A loooong nap!

My "fun" weekend plans is learning how to use to new food processor I got. I am cutting all the crap out of my diet and eating healthier and, with that, I need to prepare healthier foods and have them ready to eat in the fridge when I have cravings so I don't cheat. I'm sure I'll also be sewing and cross-stitching as well :) Thanks for doing a give-away!

It's supposed to be in the upper 90s here this weekend so we likely won't be doing too much of anything other than trying to stay cool. I'm hoping to finish the crib skirt I started and also finish up the painting on the dresser for the nursery...I need to be fast, baby girl is due May 22nd!!

Housework, grocery shopping, a young friend's Ukrainian dance recital. Hope to squeeze some quilting time! Someone else's scraps are always so much more interesting than your own! Thanks for the chance to win

I love your projects - all of them - you have such a bright cheery stash - and am always jealous! I'm going on a NJ Shop Hop with some of my sewing pals! Looking forward to checking out new stores.....and getting quilty inspirations!!!

Love this quilt. Such vibrant scraps! I need to build a scrap stash like that. Weekend plans? Maybe a trip to the city market (opening for the season tomorrow), a little antiquing, and a couple's shower for my son and future daughter-in-law who are getting married in a few weeks. And just maybe there will be a little time on Sunday to baste a quilt. (I enjoy your blog and am so happy you linked me up to Margaret's Hope Chest--I have a lot of connections to GR)

May not believe it but I am going to finish up machine quilting my "Sunday Morning Quilt" that I made when I first bought your book.(the one on the cover). I give away pretty much all my quilts, but this one is mine. I went for a small vacation last weekend to Newport Beach Ca. ( I live in Austin Tx) so a quite weekend at home is good. I would be thrilled with your scraps, you are my favorite quilter!

I usually don't comment on giveaways but there are ladybugs on top of that pile so I can't resist :-). This weekend I will make 7 zippy pouches to give as Mther's Day gifts and shuttle my 2 kids to 5 (FIVE!!!) birthday parties.

Wow, what a fun giveaway! We don't have any huge plans for the weekend, I have to finish clearing out my college-age son's room. I get him back for another summer, which means I'm back to sewing in the dining room. I'll take that trade anyday!

I started quilting because I love the scrappy quilts I see...the only trouble is that as a beginner you have a lack of scraps! This would be a real treat. No major plans for the weekend (did not realize it is Friday!).

Saturday, my husband and my car are going out of town, so my four kids and I are gardening. Or at least that's the ambitious plan. Given that they are 8mos, 3, 5, and 7, it will probably turn into playing in the mud fairly quickly :)

Smiling because I need more scraps like...and I never, never win anything, but still I will tell you that my weekend plans are to enjoy being here on Jekyll Island (a small barrier island off the coast of Georgia) on a small sailboat, where my tub of fabric and sewing machine take up the one extra berth.Anita atinlinatskillsincdotbiz

I love looking at all the links and finding new blogs. Yay! I'm tired of my scraps...Tomorrow I will be chasing around with my son doing spring things (finally). Sunday I get to go my local MQG meeting (Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild). Thanks for the chance!

I'd love to win the scraps! My first large quilt I made was your cand coated quilt in pinks and grays.

Pink and lots of it is a good antidote for what I'll be doing all weekend... Carrying loud, stinky, energetic boys to and from all of their games this weekend. We have three boys and the pace is frenetic at times.

Bit I love the chaos. Especially when I can go hide in my sewing room at night to wind down.

I love the colors of your quilt, so fun and cheery. We've been having a lot of rain and cheery is just the ticket. Tonight I went to a talent show and my girls sang the song Let It Go from Frozen. Tomorrow and Sunday, lots of relaxing and Church.

Thank you for the opportunity to win some scraps! My plans for the weekend include developing lesson plans for an honors weekend seminar I am teaching at my undergrad university and machine quilting my first quilt.

I love your blog! Thank you for the inspiring patterns. I just ordered your book and can't wait to receive it from amazon.

My oldest daughter turned 9 today, so we are having a treasure hunt birthday party for her tomorrow! Thanks for the giveaway; I love your blog and have been reading it for a few months now. :) sarah@forrussia.org

I would SO love to win your scraps---I think scraps are like Chinese food. No matter what you have in front of you, everyone else's looks so much better. (Plus I want to make a new knitting bag.) I have to work Saturday, and then I hope to get the grass cut when I come home. It is supposed to be dreary and rainy here Sunday, so I will probably go to my parents' house for dinner and watch old black & white movies. iabrenda0312@aolDOTcom.

Scraps are always fun! We have baseball, friends and hopefully some family time planned. I am hopeful to get my little initial mats done. They are all ready for quilting. I have 10 left to quilt. So hopefully they will go quick!. I love Finish it up Friday by the way. Look forward to it every week! So glad you are back online. You always inspire me to go use my stash and make some scrappy quilts! Thanks- K-

Saturday morning I get to spend at a Special Olympics track meet watching my son and his friends compete. Great, except for cold, windy North Dakota weather. Then we need to clean out our garage and shed because it's clean up week, not fun. For the rest of the weekend, I hope to finish sewing my Layer Cake Sampler Quilt along top, just have sashing strips left. Yeah! Then I need to clean my craft room.

What? Too many scraps? I don't believe it! I'm about to clean out the chicken coop and tackle a few gardening jobs, but that's not really fun. Tonight when the kids are tucked up in bed I'm going to try Heidi at Fabric Mutt's newest tutorial. I also want to make a candy coated quilt top now - thanks for that!! I think I will love your book forever. It really is fantastic!

I think I may take the girls to see a giant puppet version of the Jungle Book on Saturday and on Sunday we have our weekly inter generational game of kickball and picnicking at a local park/playground. And of course work some more on my William Morris QST quilt. Been collecting William Morris fabrics for ten years and finally decided to cut into them.

Would love some of your scraps down here in little 'ol New Zealand! So far, have had a busy weekend. Visited a friend and her gorgeous newborn, attended a baby shower, where my gift of a patchwork crib quilt was a huge hit (only my 4th ever quilt so far), and finished the day off with a visit to my cousins and her two wee girls. My 17mth old son had a ball too :)

Fun weekend plans?? I guess grocery shopping and taking my son to his SAT test aren't really fun.....and I'm not sure that running a half marathon is going to be too much fun either, but that's what's on tap for me this weekend.

My weekend started Wednesday when I came to visit my sister and we've spent our time sewing and visiting quilt shops. I'm new to quilting and just bought a new (used) machine and would love some scraps to use! Thanks for the chance!,

Today we are going to Texas A&M to see our youngest who is a junior in the Aggie Band get to wear his senior boots for the first time at Final Review. Then I hope to have time to finish a casserole carrier (finally)

I am learning to ride a motorcycle, at 61 years of age...so that is my plan for the weekend. Practice, practice, practice! My husband just bought me a brand new Honda CTX700...and I love it! Now I have something else, along with my quilting, to keep me busy and learning...I am still new at quilting and...by the way....love your blog. Thanks for all you share with us; I have learned so much from you. Judi from Canada. mjsplint3@execulink.com

This weekend I am driving with my husband to Quincy/Barry, Il for the revolver nationals. Driving up there Saturday from Ms., he's shooting Sunday and we head for home on Monday. Taking binding projects with me. I would love to play with your scraps, I will dream of it this weekend. Oh the fun, I will have. poladydwd at yahoo dot com

I'll be celebrating my husband's 62nd birthday with our grandson Henry and his parents in Duluth. He has the same birthday as your daughter. Then I get to sew on Sunday!!! Finally!! I'm loving my orange slab so need to continue with that.

Love your blog, and I would love to play with your scraps!! This weekend my family and I are participating in a 5K fun run/walk for my daughters school. and a baby shower to go to (which I made a baby quilt for)!

Love scraps! No quilting on the calendar this weekend. The garden calls as does the local zoo. I am a docent and will be spending some time interacting with visitors coming to see the animals. Maybe a little bit of knitting in front of th TV at the end of the day. Time to hit the weedy garden beds. Have a great weekend everyone!